Pat Condell at his rantilicious best. I was not familiar with the suggestion that Rickets can be traced to the vitamin D deficiency tied to wearing a burqa (have a look here for more editorializing, or actual journalism here from the BBC).
I like his headhunter analogy. But again the issue that strikes me is choice. Many, many people object to transvestism, or goth children, or [insert your garishly dressed oft-reviled sub-culture of choice] and ridicule them for marking themselves differently as to invite their own scorn. So?
I don't buy that All Muslims Everywhere Hate the West and Everything It Stands For (cuz you know, grandiose statements aside, what does the West even agree on categorically anyway?) ...but even if they do, so what? I know many disaffected and marginalized groups within society consisting of members of the dominant hegemonic ethnicity and gender who hate their own culture viciously. Isn't the freedom of conscience large enough to cover the disaffected?
But he's right, Feminists. (Cuz we all how uniform and identical and interchangeable feminists are... ugh). But point taken, the burqa is misogynistic: humanist feminist cultural crtitics, you've dropped the ball.
(I can't believe in the earlier post I spelt burqa with a "K" (burka!) rather than with the greatest of letters, "Q," since B-U-R-Q-A is a valid alternate in English and preferred in French! One Quick edit later and all is well. ---BBY)
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